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Additional & Training Services

INSET TRAINING DAYS

Additional & Training Services

INSET TRAINING DAYS

We can offer staff a wide range of training in:

Introduction to Music Therapy in schools, its impact, benefits and expected outcomes. Training an also include case study examples and experiential opportunities.
Developing practical skills through therapeutic music-making to support children/adults with communication, social, emotional and developmental difficulties.
Drumming for Development packages.

Training can include the following skills development on:

Social skills
Improving social skills through non-verbal communication techniques such as turn-taking and decision-making
Active listening
Facilitating authentic responses
Song and vocal response work; adapting to the individual/group
Sharing and duets in music
Responding through time, space and pace
Drumming: see Drumming for Development pages
Games through musical play
Mindful music for relaxation
Guidance and training on how support staff can help support a client/clients in music therapy sessions
Vocal development and team-building singing workshops for small staff groups and larger meetings of up 150 people.

We can provide training events for:

INSET days
Continuing professional development
Twilight meetings
Open days
In-house events
Team building days
Courses for staff during the academic year.

Sessions can be delivered by your on-site Music Therapist or by one of the MTW team who may specialise in a particular area of practice.

MTW workshops and training days are designed for and aimed at:teachers, educators, parents, carers, TAs, HLTAs, speech and language therapists, care staff, social workers, play therapists, art therapists, activity coordinators, support staff working in both mainstream and special needs settings or in pupil referral units, or any other professionals wishing to increase their understanding of communication through music.

Please contact us if you are interested in more information.

“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

Rigby Hall School, Bromsgrove

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"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

Dr Teresa Madurai, Clinical Psychologist, University of Birmingham

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"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

OFSTED inspection report, Trinity Specialist College

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“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

Eleanor Tingle, MTW Chief Exec

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“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

Daughter of an elderly MTW client with dementia

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“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

Dame Ellen Pinsent School Birmingham

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"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

Martha, a cancer patient describing her experience of Music Therapy

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“(Music Therapy) gives all of the children a space to express themselves. We notice a change in them whilst in the sessions. We also notice that they come back to class calmer.”

"As an MTW approved supervisor, I have witnessed MTW MTs encouraging, reflecting and reaching deeply held feelings that may not have otherwise ever have been expressed or heard. They then use these observations and information to determine the best way forward for a successful therapeutic process."

"This specialist support [music therapy] has contributed to a reduction in the number of student behavioural incidents and to improvements in the levels of students’ confidence and skills development.”

“Music allows us to meet clients at these moments where there are no words. It provides a language which the music therapist uses to allow each individual to process and move through even the most unbearable experiences.”

“Her relationship with the music therapist is the only remaining relationship in my mother’s life. She glows after her sessions.”

“Due to music therapy... we have noticed that the school is a calmer place to be. We have also noticed that there has been an increase in turn-taking skills, participation and attention / concentration skills.”

"I am glad that I am alive...joyful in the moment...there was something about music that enclosed me."

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